Forbes Ranks 30 Master's Degrees

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Link to Forbes.com. article, "Best Master's Degrees for Jobs".  (via LISNews)

Excerpt: Colleges will hand out 1.6 million bachelor's degrees this year, according to the U.S. Census (another 762,000 students are on track for associate degrees). Yet with unemployment sitting at 9.9% and underemployment at 17.1%, many students are considering sitting out the anemic job market and pursuing graduate degrees.

With this in mind, Forbes set out to determine which master's degrees would provide the best opportunities, based on salary and employment, over the next decade. We turned to Payscale.com, which lets users compare their salaries with those of other people in similar jobs by culling real-time salary data from its 16.5 million profiles.

TOP 10
1.  Physician Assistant Studies
2.  Computer Science
3.  Civil Engineering
4.  Mathematics
5.  Physics
6.  Information Technology
7.  Human Resources Management
8.  Economics
9.  Geology
10.  Business (MBA)

BOTTOM 10
21.  Speech Pathology
22.  Accounting
23.  Social Work
24.  Psychology
25.  Library and Information Science
26.  Fine Arts
27.  Counseling
28.  Education
29.  English
30.  Divinity